The Flash |OT| Gotta Go Fast - Tuesdays 8/7c

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Warm Machine said:
The use of Vancouver is REALLY distracting. Far more distracting than Arrow which seems to have a better eye for hiding its locations.

I don't like the camp feel of the show and the directing is mostly awful.
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I love the use of Vancouver. It's my hometown, so I get a kick out of seeing all the Vancouver locales.
 
Warm Machine said:
The use of Vancouver is REALLY distracting. Far more distracting than Arrow which seems to have a better eye for hiding its locations.

I don't like the camp feel of the show and the directing is mostly awful.
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Ah ha! I knew it looked familiar. A family member was just showing me pics he took of his trip to Vancouver and that Vogue sign downtown was bugging me.
 
Even if you haven't been the Vancouver you eventually start noticing a lot of the same locations across different shows thanks to just how much filming goes on there. Just keep on the look out for the sky shots, especially at night for the Woodward's "W" sign. It's kind of funny to see it show up on various shows. Last season most noticeable for me was Arrow and then not that long after on Continuum though at least Continuum is actually meant to take place in Vancouver.
 
Three for three on ending the episode with Wells taking his glasses off. That's always been the important bit; standing up is secondary.
 
I just catched up with the three episodes. Like this show way more than Arrow, especially the beginning of Arrow. Flash is much more sincere to what it is and faster paced. He got the basics of his super hero life (costume, duty, goal, special prison) already figured out and we're already in fighting super villains.
 
Hours Left said:
But that won't be for a while yet... :/

I'd like them to expand his character in the meantime.
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10 more episodes? I think it's obvious we are getting the Rogues this season so they'd have to reveal Pied Piper between that time as he was a member. Though David isn't a major character on the show, so i'd give up hope on that. Then again Geoff Johns did create him so maybe we might see something down the line

BigJonsson said:
So Flash fought the guy from Infamous Second Son :p
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simplythebest said:
10 more episodes? I think it's obvious we are getting the Rogues this season so they'd have to reveal Pied Piper between that time as he was a member. Though David isn't a major character on the show, so i'd give up hope on that. Then again Geoff Johns did create him so maybe we might see something down the line
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I know there was talk of perhaps eventually bumping him up from recurring character. The fact that he's been billed with the main guest stars in every episode he's been in despite his relatively limited camera time so far as made me think we're already on the way to that.

Plus since we've got Geoff Johns on board and Greg Bertlanti at the helm, so I'm really hoping it's gonna happen sooner rather than later. It's about damn time we got some gay dudes in these superhero shows. Though will SHIELD beat them to the punch I wonder?
 
In an alternate universe: After The Flash gave the lady the robber's knife & run away, the robber knocked her out regardless & killed her. Good job, Barry!

Other than that a more than solid episode, I didn't expected that neccessarily, since episode 2 was a underwhelming to say the least. And I don't like that the very last tease played out the exact same every episode. They should shake it up a bit. Luckily they don't seem to bring in the flashbacks every week.
 
So Wells is probably...
Zoom, from the future trying to inject himself into Barry's life as much as possible because he's kind of Flash's biggest fan. Then he eventually finds out it was he who killed Barry's mom / is destined to be a villain and as result goes nuts and becomes a villain. Going on this theory just because he murdered a guy.

Also, is it safe to say that the CW has paved the road for headlines next year with Wally West potentially being black?
 
I just saw the promo for the next episode.

Barry is who Felicity - from Arrow - is meant to be with, not Oliver. They've got way better chemistry together.

Dany M said:
Is no one getting flashbacks to Arrow season 1 or all of smallville.

the hokeyness of it all D:
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It works with The Flash and I don't think it should be a gritty social realist type of show.
 
Dany M said:
Is no one getting flashbacks to Arrow season 1 or all of smallville.

the hokeyness of it all D:
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Well sure, but the Flash is in many ways a hokey, old-fashioned hero so it works for him.

and I can only imagine it will seem more that way when his villains start showing up

BodiesWithoutOrgans said:
loved that were getting a gay and out super villain :)

come on CW give me a gay superhero
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Speaking of... does Wentworth Miller become the first openly gay man to play a comic book hero or villain?

Mind is drawing a blank.
 
So if DC is treating TV and Movie universes as part of a multiverse, will there be a big movie event in which these universes collide?
 
Error said:
So if DC is treating TV and Movie universes as part of a multiverse, will there be a big movie event in which these universes collide?
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No. It's just a multiverse for the sake of not completely writing out the chance of seeing the characters appear in the movies.
 
I dont get it.

When flash is fighting someone why does he stop using his super speed?

When he is moving so fast it's like time is stopped for him so it should be easy to take out anyone.
 
CreeperBlocks said:
How the heck would that work? would it be a guy in a Gorilla outfit?
I mean i don't think this show has a big enough budget to pull it off.
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Grodd could be much more of a behind the scenes type of villain as he has psychic powers and would be primarily acting through possessed humans. They could use a real gorilla if they structure the episode to reveal him as the mastermind in the last few minutes of the show, using a combination of cg, clever cuts, and, yeah, dudes in gorilla suits for certain shots.
 
morningbus said:
Grodd could be much more of a behind the scenes type of villain as he has psychic powers and would be primarily acting through possessed humans. They could use a real gorilla if they structure the episode to reveal him as the mastermind in the last few minutes of the show, using a combination of cg, clever cuts, and, yeah, dudes in gorilla suits for certain shots.
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Yeah that could work. Gorilla Grodd seems like a tough villain to do.

Also Any ideas who Tom Cavanagh's character is? Is he flash from the future? Because we know that the cop guy that Iris is dating is Reverse Flash.
 
So, anyone else bothered with Barry not giving a shit about the other guard that was poisoned 5 seconds earlier than his step-father? That just felt like extremely lazy writing. Couldn't they have show a clip where he injects the rest of the antidote to the other guard for 2 seconds? I guess not. Kinda ruined my whole impression of him as a superhero.
 
Maffis said:
So, anyone else bothered with Barry not giving a shit about the other guard that was poisoned 5 seconds earlier than his step-father? That just felt like extremely lazy writing. Couldn't they have show a clip where he injects the rest of the antidote to the other guard for 2 seconds? I guess not. Kinda ruined my whole impression of him as a superhero.
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Guard was already dead.
 
Really liking it so far. The dialog is cheesy and on the nose and the opening narration is as sickly comic booky as I would have ever hoped.

Wells and his overly dramatic outros are perhaps the best thing so far. If they keep doing it then it may get annoying but I hope they at least revisit them every so often.
 
marrec said:
Really liking it so far. The dialog is cheesy and on the nose and the opening narration is as sickly comic booky as I would have ever hoped.

Wells and his overly dramatic outros are perhaps the best thing so far. If they keep doing it then it may get annoying but I hope they at least revisit them every so often.
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I should start working on a Wells "getting up from his wheelchair, taking off his glasses, and doing something nefarious" montage.

This week's episode was great to see Caitlin getting some character development, and I am totally shipping her and Barry now lol. The sappy montage possibilities are just too good to pass up.
 
TheVampire said:
I dont get it.

When flash is fighting someone why does he stop using his super speed?

When he is moving so fast it's like time is stopped for him so it should be easy to take out anyone.
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More taxing on him so it's limited and because villains would then last 10 seconds against him and there'd be zero tension in anything, even if it's contrived. It's no different from every other super hero show or comic that's done the same thing. Besides that, we can throw in the "Barry is still a beginner" excuse.

Razgriz-Specter said:
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Fixed that for you. ;)
 
Really enjoying this. There's the repetition that's generally expected from a show in its first few episodes, but you can see where the producers have learnt from Arrow's slow start and its later successes. Grant Gustin is a fantastic lead.

I'm not a comics reader so this is pure speculation, but will spoiler tag anyway just in case, but
are we supposed to be assuming that Dr. Wells is a future or alternate universe version of Barry? Because the show seems to be really heavily hinting at that without ever saying it out loud. Plus there's apparently a Crisis On Infinite Earths reference in the pilot which, unsurprisingly, I missed.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
More taxing on him so it's limited and because villains would then last 10 seconds against him and there'd be zero tension in anything, even if it's contrived. It's no different from every other super hero show or comic that's done the same thing. Besides that, we can throw in the "Barry is still a beginner" excuse.
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Maybe flash has slow reaction time?

When he first confronted that gas guy in that hall way he punches him but his fist goes right through him.

Then the guy hits flash a few times.

Surely he would be able to dodge that.
 
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